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shikaan

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About shikaan

I run some open source projects at https://github.com/shikaan

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    A native application (Windows, Linux, MacOS) for music transcription. It comes with time stretch and pitch shift as most of these softwares do, but it allows you to save loop regio…

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    Is this how we bring "works on my machine" in production? /s

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    Kinda OT: can anybody recognize the keyboard in the German keyboard shot? I have been looking for a similar ISO keyboard (with international layout) for a while

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    Show HN: OSle – A 510 bytes OS in x86 assembly, now with a C API

    About 10 months ago I posted OSle here [1], an OS in x86 assembly that fits in the 510 bytes of a bootloader. It got great discussion and I kept working on it. All userland program…

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    I have played with that idea for a while until I realized I was creating a poor man's web browser in the terminal. At that point I started wondering if converting my man folder to …

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    Such a great read! Reminds me of the bootsector OS I made some time ago[^1] Maybe it's time to equip it with a C compiler... [1]: https://github.com/shikaan/osle

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    Shameless plug. I built a tool[1] to manage Keepass archives in the terminal which might scratch some of the itches I am reading here: it has a TUI, but can be piped into other com…

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    Exactly this. I have been planning on trying to glue up something with v86[1] as I did in OSle[2] but I did not get to it yet. In that case, everything would run locally and sandbo…

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    Something similar, but you can play with the examples in the browser without any local setup https://shikaan.github.io/assembly/x86/guide/2024/09/08/x86-... For full disclosure, I …

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    Show HN: Lifp – A Lisp Built on Bun

    A silly summer break project where I played around with Bun, which I hadn't had the chance to yet. It's not super lisp-y, there's no car, no cdr, nor macros. It's a Lisp-Inspired F…

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    Honestly, I made it up :) I thought about what would be the minimum I have to build in order to run some userland software that does "something". That to me looked like: spawn gues…

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    Oh boy, this is amazing! Thanks for the reference

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    Hey, thanks for your interest in this project! 3. The tty interrupt advances the cursor along with printing. So, once again, I do it to save on some instructions. In the first iter…

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    I would have assumed the same, but I haven't managed. On the other hand, I did not tinker too much with all these toggles; it's such a little amount of shared code (which is also p…